Chennai: The Ericsson Mobility report named India as the second largest consumer of Internet, which inevitably attracts a substantial increase in ransomware and other internet-related cyberattacks.
Key findings taken from the 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report showed six countries including India accounted for half of the top 50,000 malicious IP addresses used largely for Windows exploits, spam, scanners and botnet. Although the average number of malicious IPs decreased globally from 2020 to 2021, India saw a 28 per cent YoY increase from 6.65 per cent to 8.5 per cent malicious IP convictions.
‘Over the past six months we have seen an increase in customers wishing to back up their endpoints with clean restores. These are important measures against cyber events particularly in the wake of the Personal Data Protection Bill,’ said Roshan Dsouza, India senior sales manager at Carbonite + Webroot.
OpenText has announced the launch of the Carbonite Endpoint backup solution in India, with the added option for businesses to securely backup their data into a local vault to meet data sovereignty requirements.